core/builtins/rm.cif
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# rm.cif
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# 
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# Copyright (c) 2010 Accenture. All rights reserved.
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# This component and the accompanying materials are made available
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# under the terms of the "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
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# which accompanies this distribution, and is available
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# at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
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# 
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# Initial Contributors:
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# Accenture - Initial contribution
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#
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==name rm
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==short-description
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Remove one or more files.
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==argument filename file_name multiple
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The name of the file to be removed. May contain wild characters C<*> and C<?> to specify more than one file.
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==option bool r recurse
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Also delete files in sub-directories.
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==option bool f force
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Force delete the file even if it is read-only (won't allow you to delete a directory containing read-only files).
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==option string n noexpand multiple
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This option takes a filename similar to the C<filename> argument. The difference is that it doesn't attempt to expand wildcards and instead passes them straight through to CFileMan. This can be useful when a directory has a huge number of files and C<rm *> fails with KErrNoMemory. In this case, try doing C<rm --noexpand *> instead.
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==copyright
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Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Accenture. All rights reserved.
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